M Songs

“I guess the crux of this song is that lives of faith and intellectual pursuits cannot be viewed as mutually exclusive if we are to survive the next millennium.” – From the liner notes of Angels, Bones & Clocks Take these old bones from my body, Bring me something shiny new. They only hold me […]

You can say that I’m bad company, Been the cause of all your misery. But no matter what my personal history, My dog loves me. It was more than thirty-four dog years ago, When I bailed him out of death row. Just one of a million faces that he did not know. I said, “Hello, […]

I’ve been living and so I’ve been dying,I rub two minutes together until they’re smoking for me.Trying to build a bonfire in the middle of this mystery.I wet my feet here in the safety of the shallows,All while trying to pretend I’m living dangerously.Then I feel you pulling me into the channel of this mystery. […]

“This is a little song, if you know it, you can sing along. I think I wrote it in Devil’s Lake State Park. I wrote this song there in nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.” – Introduction from a performance on 17 Jun 2012 Sometimes sunshine is the only kinda medicine. Somedays the warm ray’s The only […]

It was just a song ago, I sang your hallelujahs. It was just a song, I know, But I’d nothing more to give. I gave it to you on a platter, Made of guts and humors. I set it there in hopes to shatter, All your icy fears. And you’ll never know the reasons, Like […]

“A couple Christmases ago I got a joggin’ suit. And I got a stocking cap that matched it rather smartly. And I was lookin’ at myself in front of the mirror and I hadn’t shaved for a couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I looked an awful lot like a hostage […]